by Melodie Kenniebrew | Jul 11, 2014 | Eats and Travel Beyond the Southwest, Inspiration, Musings, Southern NM & Borderlands, Southern NM Living
The generous prosper and are satisfied; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed. ~ Proverbs 11:25 Not like I’ll ever turn my nose up at a box of chocolates. But a gift of encouragement is sweeter still. Irresistible. I can’t do without it ~...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Mar 28, 2014 | Attractions and Events, Destinations, Inspiration, Musings, outdoors, Southern NM & Borderlands
Where there’s a “why ” there’s a way. ~ Me You can achieve what seems impossible, even long-held dreams of travel when you start with the right fuel. Here’s how I know … The Trip of a Lifetime … I just got back from Israel. The experience changed how...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Dec 27, 2013 | Inspiration, Musings, Southern NM & Borderlands
The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and . . . go out to meet it. ~ Thucydides What is your plan for making this a rainbow year? I’ve never made a New Year’s resolution. Ever. Not just because I saw...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Jun 12, 2012 | Inspiration, Musings, Southern NM & Borderlands, Southern NM Living
If you’re always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be. ~ Maya Angelou What do normal people look like where you come from? In New York City ~ the place I come from ~ normal people speed walk everywhere the subway can’t...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Oct 9, 2011 | Inspiration, Musings
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can’t find them, they make them. ~George Bernard Shaw Whenever I meet someone new here and they ask what brought me to Las Cruces, I usually say...
by Melodie Kenniebrew | Oct 1, 2011 | Inspiration
Round up the usual suspects. – Claude Rains as Captain Renault in Casablanca Enough already of the “usual suspects.” Casablanca has been a favorite movie since I chose to do a paper on it for a college cinema class. Hunkered down in one of...